XPress 8 gives us brain ache
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in QuarkXPress on August 14, 2008 at 10:42 am
Last weekend we went picking blackberries and had entered a scruffy-looking field through the open gateway to get to the brambles around the boundaries. All the time, we expected to be told to “Get orf my lan”.
This reminded us of when our daughter was in junior school and we gave her friend Sakiko a lift home to “Loman Load” as she called it. “Loman Load?” we queried. “Yes, and don’t be lude” she replied. We expected much the same when we saw our router’s wireless access lights blinking away. All our wireless devices were safely asleep but some sneaky so-and-so was trying to get orf on our WAN, which, unlike the field, has well protected gateways and an initial cap Sakiko couldn’t pronounce.
Which is just about how QuarkXPress 8 makes us feel. We had to do a job in inDesign so haven’t had much time to play with XPress 8 which seems to have a steeper learning curve than any previous incarnation of the program. It doesn’t help that the software arrives with no manuals and the on-screen help has always been a weak point Quark never attended to. Plus the help uses Windows screen dumps – the horror…the horror.
Their Welcome Screen Xtension, free for QXP 7 and included with QXP 8, takes you up blind alleys if you click on promises of keyboard shortcut guides and advanced help because they all lead to QXP 7 versions. However, today a new message appeared (it has a live link to Quark) taking you to a 29-page, X-ray Magazine article that takes an in-depth look at some of XPress 8’s new features.
This is Codeine to our visual cortex, numbing the headaches from trying to find how the new features in XPress 8 work. No matter how many times we recalibrated our forward arrays we only seemed to absorb antiquark particles. This article is by far the best we’ve seen and should be read by all XPress 6 users so they can see what twits they are for staying in the dark ages. XPress 7 users can read about what they are missing if they don’t upgrade.
But three hundred quid! Phew! That is a lot to ask for an upgrade.
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